Game Time: 3:37 pm ET, Wednesday, July 6th, 2022 

Venue: Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, California

Where to Watch: MLBN ** MLB.tv

DraftKings: Blue Jays -169, Athletics +145; O/U

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Blue Jays: 44-37, 2nd place AL West

Athletics: 27-55, 5th place AL West

 

Summer Day Baseball Games.  Can’t beat em’.  Get the kids in the station wagon, hit the stadium with a few dollops of sunscreen… watch a game… pig out on junk food and sodas.  Relive the days of your dad doing this with you. Nothing better. Unless the game is being played at Oakland Coliseum… where no one else will be.  Where they have shut down a lot of the concession stands because no fans are coming to watch the worst team in baseball.  The only good thing about a ticket to an A’s game is of course:  You can sit anywhere you want!  So if you are a Blue Jays fan in Oakland.. Come out to the park and sit front row for the price of a nosebleed seat.  If you are anyone else the only reason to briefly look in on this game during the day is to see how your bet is doing…. That’s right.  The most reliable ticket in betting can often be simply betting against the worst team.  Sure the payoff on the money line will be smaller… but the better team winning is statistically the most likely outcome.  The free money is there for the taking…. Now I know what you are saying and or thinking?,., The Oakland Athletics won Game 1 of this series on July 4th 5-1.  Yes that did happen, and we lost a bet.  It also doesn’t change the fact that statistically the Blue Jays will beat the A’s… It also will bring the moneyline closer to a better return.  So accept that losing some is part of a winning betting strategy.  Don’t chase… just keep plowing forward.

 

The Toronto Blue Jays are a quality American League East team.  The numbers show yet again (like last season) a potent offense that needs more pitching.  The Blue Jays can hit the ball and score some runs.  The idea that they missed the boat on signing a load of quality starting pitchers last offseason has left them looking up at the runaway Yankees from 11-12 games back… and they are in 2nd PLACE!!  Still they have everything any team needs to beat the pitiful A’s 9 out of ten times.  Don't avoid this betting line because of the small return. The Jays will win and give you a small return.  The Blue jays have only won 4 of their last 10 games… which is why the A’s are such a welcome sight across the diamond.  

 

The Oakland Athletics are garbage.  It doesn’t start with the players… the ownership group of the team simply does not want to be in Oakland… nor do they ever spend money on big time players.  The A’s are a joke.  The running question is when will they wind up in Las Vegas? For the MLB moving the A’s from Oakland to Las Vegas would be a travesty… It would ruin two markets forever at the same time.  They have won just 3 of their last 10 games… for the A’s winning 3 of 10 is actually a good ten game stretch.  They went 1-2 against the Seattle Mariners, 0-3 against the New York Yankees, 2-1 against the Kansas City Royals and 0-1 against the Seattle Mariners.  

 

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The Athletics are 29th in runs per game with 3.17, 30th in batting average with .213, 30th in OBP with .274.

 

The Blue Jays are 6th in scoring with 4.77 runs per game, 3rd in batting average with .258, and 3rd in OBP with .327.

 

The A’s pitchers are 24th in ERA with 4.41, 24th in WHIP 1.35, and the fielders are 24th in errors with 53 on the season so far. 

 

The Blue Jays pitchers are 22nd in ERA with 4.11, 18th in WHIP with 1.27, and the fielders are 8th in errors with only 36 on the season.

 

Our prediction for Wednesday July 6th is… Blue Jays 5 - A’s 2

 

Bet on the Blue Jays… Again.  Any bet against the A’s this season is the proper bet.  They are on pace to set an all-time record for low attendance… and to win a pitifully small number of games.

 

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Oakland is 7-21 when the total is 7 or less this season.
Oakland is 1-10 as a home underdog of +125 - +175 this season.
Toronto is 1081 - 821 as a favorite of -110 or higher since 1997.

 

Blue Jays: RHP Jose Berrios, 6-4, 5.72 ERA, 67 strikeouts in 83 innings pitched.  1.43 WHIP.  Jose Berrios is a chump with bad numbers this season… but statistically he is about even with the A’s pitcher and has a slightly better bullpen and more run support.

 

Athletics: RHP, James Kaprelian, 1-5, 5.43 ERA, 40 strikeouts in 58 innings pitched.  1.38 WHIP.  James is a young guy with a losing record, a bad ERA, and a poor WHIP… but we have no idea if he is good but supported by a bad team… or bad and holding his bad team down.  This is the A’s.  We can spend all day wondering about the chicken or egg with these young pitchers?

 

Blue Jays: Charlie “I look like this all the time” Montoyo

Athletics: Mark “It’s a paying gig” Kotsay